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HINKLER ARRIVES
WELCOME AT SOUTHAMPTON TRIBUTE TO PLANE (United Press Assn.—Uy Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec 5.5 p.m.) London, November 12. v The Mayor, Cororation and people of Southampton, including Jack Matthews who attempted the Australian flight with Hook, a.ssembled at Atlantic Park, the site of the Municipal airport, to welcome Bert Hinkler on his punctual arrival on the flight Home in his historic Puss Moth. He was accompanied from Winchester by three machines attached to the Hampshire Aeroplane Club of which he is a member. Hinkler, after his wife had greeted him and the speeches and cheers had ended, declared that the real way to see the world accompanied by good service, safety, pleasure and education was by a good little British aeroplane.
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Southland Times, Issue 21576, 14 December 1931, Page 7
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